DISABLING ONBOARD INPUT DEVICES IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

A computer-implemented method, comprising: obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, input data indicating an input by a user with respect to a vehicle input device located onboard an autonomous vehicle; determining, by the computing system, that the autonomous vehicle is in an operating mode where the vehicle input device is disabled from user inputs; in response to determining that the autonomous vehicle is in the operating mode where the vehicle input device is disabled from user inputs, providing, by the computing system, one or more control signals to the vehicle input device such that any user input with respect to the vehicle input device does not affect an operation of the autonomous vehicle; and providing, by the computing system to the user, output data indicating that the vehicle input device has been disabled.